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Bridget Raftery

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Big fan of opting outside | Photographer | Beginner gardener 🧑🏼‍🌾 | Creative marketer 🧑🏼‍💻📈📊📸🌌🌲🏔️🥾💐💫 📍 Pacific Northwest www.linkedin.com/in/bridgetraftery www.bridgetrafteryphotography.com

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Dec 1

Hello, world! 💐

I’m Bridget. I’m from the PNW and love to photograph the world around me.

I’m a social media marketing professional by day, and an adjunct marketing prof by night. Weekends are for adventures, games, snacks, & naps.

Nice to virtually meet you in this lovely corner of the internet!

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 1d

Floating amongst the stars 🌌

#sketch #paint #art #space #stuff #and #things

A pencil drawn sketch of an astronaut floating

A sketch colored in with paint pens of an astronaut floating in space amongst the stars, with colorful lines drawn around the space suit and a planet with rings visible in the upper left corner.

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 8d

Drawing mountains at midnight was just what the doctor ordered

#Tahoma #MountRainier

A pencil sketch of Mount Rainier with a variety of curvy and straight lines doodled around it to represent the landscape and sky

Paint pen used on top of pencil showing an illustration of Mount Rainier with wavy lines in the foreground colored in with blues, greens, and some purple, and the background showing sun rays of yellow, orange, and pink, with some wavy blue lines with white stars showing through in multiple places

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 12d

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It’s true 🏠

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Jul 8

home is where the Prius is 🏕️

A campsite with camp chairs and a blanket illuminated by rainbow LED lights strung from the trees to a car. The car is a Prius with a large 4-person tent attached to the hatch.

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 12d

this car has taken me everywhere

over 214k miles. driven through 36 states.

multiple trips from Washington State to Alabama and back. off road adventures. too many nights car camping to count.

initially never thought I’d even like having a Prius, but Perry the Prius is the goat

A periwinkle blue Prius parked on the side of a highway in Texas looking out to the Guadeloupe Mountains

A periwinkle Prius drives through the brush outside of Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada

A periwinkle Prius covered in snow at a rest stop in Wyoming

A periwinkle Prius covered in bumper stickers, carrying two orange kayaks on the roof and parked in front of trees, grass, and a lake

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 12d

did some rough math and realized I’ve spent well over 10,000 hours driving my Prius since 2014

does that make me a subject matter expert on driving Prii

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 13d

game changer for this adhd brain

I have 45 unread texts that have been indefinitely lost in my mountain of messages, that now can be easily surfaced 🥲 a useful update?!

A screenshot of the user interface of the drop down menu within the iMessage app, showing options for filtering by Spam, Recently Deleted, Unread, Drafts, and another option for Managing Filtering

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 14d

why is everyone in Croatia this year lol what is happening

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 20d

the way my music shuffled from Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine to the New Seekers singing I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing

feels like the American experience rn

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 27d

That’s fantastic! It’s so important, and takes courage to seek out. Proud of him too 😊 I found a fantastic group of friends when I returned to school at BC, I hope he thrives where he’s at and where he’s headed!

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 27d

Geez, I can imagine 😩 Oh my gosh, this reminded me - my wife is taking a couple online classes this quarter and her running start classmate shared in her introduction that she has been in online school “since the pandemic started in 5th grade” 😭😭😭😩

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · 27d

mentioned to my dentist that I’ve seen him for almost a decade now

“this practice has only been open 6 years though?”

and then he learned 2016 was actually 9+ years ago

the pandemic years really did a number on our perception of time

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Sep 26

parents waiting with their teens for the bus in suburbia gives me flashbacks discovering the metro bus at 12 with my friends, no way for our parents to track us - bopping around Capitol Hill, U district, Northgate, until learning transfer tickets expire & getting stranded with no money or phones 💀

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Sep 22

Shoutout to the child with the bubble gun for the clutch timing 🫧 and to my phone stretching the last 1% of it’s battery for one last picture

Final evening of the #WashingtonState Fair, 2025

#PuyallupFair #Celebrating #125years

A colorful metal set of stairs in the foreground leads up to the classic Swings ride at the Washington State Fair. People are suspended in the air, spinning across the top half of the image, with a beautiful yellow, orange, and blue sunset peaking out from behind a Ferris wheel and Mardis Gras amusement ride in the background. Bubbles are visible floating through the scene through lines of people on the right behind the metal barrier.

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Sep 17

Oooh, I didn’t know this, thank you so much for sharing with me - I will do that! 🥰

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Sep 16

Yes! 🌼😊

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Sep 15

200+ seeds from a single dried marigold flower ✨

#gardening #gardensky #flowers

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Sep 6

I just want to go float on an inflatable pizza slice for like 3 hours

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 18

honestly the only reason I’ve started using voice tools - typing at 100+ wpm is not fast enough 💀

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 18

my body does not move fast enough for my brain

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 3

R5
One shot
10 second timer
10 second exposure
24mm f/4 at 2500 ISO
#CanonPhotography

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 3

when your inner child wants to run around your camera on the beach at 1am, you say yes

selfie with the #MilkyWay 🥰

#Oregon #Photography

a person at night wearing in sweatpants, fleece, and beanie standing on a beach engraved with footprints all around, holding their hands up to showcase the Milky Way shown above

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 2

Love the patterns made by steel beams

#Astoria #Photography

a road in a shadow leads to a dramatic drop and then the rest of the road can be seen below. green steel beams surround the road, with water in the far background

A busy crossing of steel beams on the Astoria-Megler bridge with a car driving below

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 2

This bridge is so dramatic 🎢

#PNW #Photography #Bridge #Astoria #Oregon #WashingtonState

The Astoria-Megler bridge seen from the Washington State side

On the Astoria-Megler bridge, a shadow of a bridge railing runs across the road leading to a steep incline with industrial steel above. A car drives in the lane going in the opposite direction

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Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 2

@chrisclougholy.bsky.social thought you might like this 😄

Seattle seen from Elliott Bay with the Space Needle on the far right and radio towers on the far left. In the water, visible from a far distance, a sailboat is seen next to a breaching baby humpback whale.

Bridget Raftery @braftery.bsky.social · Aug 1

after a lifetime of living in the area, I witnessed my first whale breaching in the PNW, in the middle of Elliott Bay from the ferry to Bainbridge 🥹

photo from very far away with a 400mm lens

@ferries.wsdot.wa.gov

a whale shows its belly and throws its fins up as it breaches in front of a beach along Seattle

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